{"id":197,"date":"2014-08-14T14:32:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T18:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/yfanslow\/?p=197"},"modified":"2014-08-14T14:33:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T18:33:06","slug":"recruiting-a-new-ph-d-student-to-study-reproductive-ecology-of-swede-midge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/yfanslow\/2014\/08\/14\/recruiting-a-new-ph-d-student-to-study-reproductive-ecology-of-swede-midge\/","title":{"rendered":"Recruiting a new Ph. D. student to study reproductive ecology of swede midge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ph. D. assistantship in reproductive ecology and mating disruption<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In cooperation with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uoguelph.ca\/~plantpro\/people\/rebecca_hallett.html\">Dr. Rebecca Hallett&#8217;s lab<\/a> at University of Guelph, we will be recruiting for a highly motivated Ph. D. student, who has an interest in studying the reproductive ecology of mating disruption for a cecidomyiid fly. Three years of funding are available. Please email me if you are interested or know of suitable candidates!<\/p>\n<p>*******************************************************<\/p>\n<p>We just received a new USDA NIFA Crop Protection grant to study the reproductive biology of swede midge, <em>Contarinia nasturtii<\/em> (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae). We want to determine the feasibility of implementing a mating disruption program for this devastating invasive pest.<\/p>\n<p>Swede midge most immediately threatens organic Brassica (broccoli, cabbage, collards, kale, etc.) production, because there aren&#8217;t any effective pest management solutions. Although the midge is only currently found in the New York and Vermont, it can potentially colonize all of the major <em>Brassica<\/em> growing areas, including California. We are alarmed by the increasing number of stories that growers may abandon the planting of Brassica crops, or forgo the planting for a season or two. In Canada, the midge has already spread from British Columbia to Prince Edward Island. Last year&#8217;s conventional canola losses in Ontario could be as high as 50%.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ph. D. assistantship in reproductive ecology and mating disruption In cooperation with Dr. Rebecca Hallett&#8217;s lab at University of Guelph, we will be recruiting for a highly motivated Ph. D. student, who has an interest in studying the reproductive ecology &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/yfanslow\/2014\/08\/14\/recruiting-a-new-ph-d-student-to-study-reproductive-ecology-of-swede-midge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"yfanslow","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/yfanslow\/author\/yfanslow\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/yfanslow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/yfanslow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/yfanslow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/yfanslow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/yfanslow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/yfanslow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/yfanslow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/yfanslow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/yfanslow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/yfanslow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}